Imagery by Ed Guarente
Happy New Year! This being the first of 2022, I have a big announcement! Its time to pivot! Its time to forget about the past and look towards tomorrow! Everyone has been affected in one way or another by Covid, especially in my business. Once the pandemic hit and everything shut down, I kinda felt it just wasn’t the right time for me to get back into the event photography business that I have been doing for over 30 years. Sure, I loved doing weddings, portraits and photo booths, but the whole covid thing kind of gave me the time to re-think and hone other skills. That’s why today, I have officially ended all event photography. (although, one may be able to twist my arm) and I will focus 100% on my nature images featuring the Bald eagles of Central New York. Many kind hearted individuals have contacted me and asked to purchase some of my images. How great is that! and I couldn’t believe it. I really never thought about offering my images for sale, until the pandemic hit. So I decided to start. I am very excited to showcase my first edition calendar this year which can be found here: http://sessions.edguarente.com/photos/clients/weddings/ Also, I have quite a few of my favorite images in regular sized prints available as well as some very different and custom nature art pieces I have been fortunate enough to create. Very excited to show these and I might add the 10x10s / 20/20’s in a metal are insanely beauteous! During the shutdown, I have met a ton of really talented and just great people down around Onondaga lake. Everyone like me had gotten the bug! Not the bug that shut everything down, but the bird bug, especially the big 6 foot wingspan birds with beaming white heads. The American Bald Eagle. Just so happens when the lake freezes up here the eagles come from all over to feed and roost close to wear we all wait passionately for them. At the end of the lake, the creek keeps the water flowing into the lake and keeps the water from freezing, this leave a good couple hundred yards of perfect feeding grounds or our feathered fishing buddies. Most all of my eagle images are photographed by myself at the Onondaga Lake here in Syracuse NY. I have photographed a few from Lake Ontario but not many as I seem to wind up in the ditches up there. Haha
Let me say one other tiny thing, to the brides and grooms whom I’ve had the privilege to be a part of their wedding days, for many, many years, I cannot thank you enough. To the families, high school seniors as well as my other event clients, I thank you beyond words can say! I will definitely miss doing this kind of photography
